/**
 *  StaDiUM - State Diagram Unified Modeler
 *  Copyright (C) 2007  Stefan Bucur, Mihai Balan, Claudiu Tanase
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.

 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.

 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 *  with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 *  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 */

/**
 *  File Information:
 *
 *  Last Modified On: $Date: 2007-05-28 22:50:32 +0000 (Mon, 28 May 2007) $
 *  Last Modified By: $Author: stefan.bucur $
 */
package ro.pub.cs.stadium.platform;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

import ro.pub.cs.stadium.plugin.IPlugin;

public class PluginManager {
	private class Plugin {
		public IPlugin loadedPlugin = null;
		public String name = null;
		
		public Plugin() {
			
		}
		
	}
	
	private List<Plugin> pluginList = null;
	
	public PluginManager() {
		pluginList = new LinkedList<Plugin>();
	}
	
	/**
	 * Asynchronously loads a StaDiUM plugin given a Class file
	 * @param pluginClass
	 */
	public void loadPlugin(final Class pluginClass) throws PluginException {
		IPlugin newPluginInst = null;
		
		try {
			newPluginInst = (IPlugin)pluginClass.newInstance();
		} catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
			throw new PluginException(ex);
		} catch (InstantiationException ex) {
			throw new PluginException(ex);
		}
		
		Plugin newPlugin = new Plugin();
		newPlugin.loadedPlugin = newPluginInst;
		newPlugin.name = "";
		
		pluginList.add(newPlugin);
	}
}
